User Modeling for the Internet of Things
Bob Kummerfeld, Judy Kay · 2017
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) consists of a large number of interconnected, low cost devices and the framework for managing them. While this provides the means for rich and ubiquitous personalized interaction, a key gap is the lack of support for user modeling to harness and manage personal data gathered from IoT. Our work fills this gap by creating the IoTum user modeling framework for Internet-of-Things applications. Our design goals were to make it easy for IoT application developers to use, tackling the difficulty of building ubicomp systems. At the same time, we aimed to achieve light-weight, flexible, powerful, reactive user modeling that is accountable, transparent and scrutable.